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Hebrew gravestone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries in the Raysn region(Belarus and Ukraine) [PDF]
Hebrew gravestone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries from the region called Raysn (mostly in current Belarus and partially in Ukraine) are studied as a historical source and a literature genre.
Nosonovsky, M.
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Speaking Jewish: “Yiddish” in the Discourse of First-Generation American Yiddish Speakers
By the end of this century, well over half of the world’s languages will disappear. Analyzing how minority languages are discussed by native speakers can provide insight into the relationship between language ideologies and language survival.
Jennifer Kronovet
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Jiddische Verlage und Bibliotheken in der Bukowina der Zwischenkriegszeit. Erkundungen in der Czernowitzer Presse [PDF]
Compared to the Habsburg era, when Yiddish writings were hardly printed in Bukovina – due to the centralized policy of Vienna and the openness towards integration and assimilation on the part of numerous Bukovinian Jews, as well as because of the ...
Francisca SOLOMON
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Broadcasts aired by the Polish Radio in the Yiddish language in the 1950s were listened to all over the world. All the audience felt that for them, due to numerous reasons, the broadcasts were a matter of high value, and it is confirmed in letters sent ...
Anna Rozenfeld
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Transnational Ashkenaz: Yiddish culture after the Holocaust
After the Holocaust’s near complete destruction of European Yiddish cultural centres, the Yiddish language was largely viewed as a remnant of the past, tragically eradicated in its prime.
Jan Schwarz
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The vocabulary of Yiddish-Hebrew speaking children – A CDI study
Yiddish-Hebrew speakers residing in Israel are primarily Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox Jews, living in relatively closed communities, characterized by their large number of children, low parental formal education, and low family income. Religious literacy and
Odelya Ohana +2 more
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Le yiddish : un passé proche et un souvenir éternel dans l’univers d’Aharon Appelfeld
The article takes a look at what we know about the role of languages in the life of Aharon Appelfeld. He heard Yiddish only in his early childhood, as a language spoken by his grandparents, but in Israel, after the war, learning Yiddish appeared to him ...
Masha Itzhaki
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The paper addresses the issue of pro-drop configurations within the Principles and Parameters framework (P&P) and the Minimalist Program (MP) with respect to comparative syntactic analysis of German, Polish and Yiddish.
Anna Pilarski
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Jiddische Sprache als Kulturträger in Polen nach der Schoah
With the Shoah, the number of speakers of Yiddish was brutally reduced; thus, Yiddish culture was destroyed. In the immediate post-war period, there were initiatives in Poland to preserve and revive the remnants.
Anna Rozenfeld
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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